On Monday, October 5th, the Prep Baseball Oklahoma staff hosted the Bixby Scout Day on the campus of Bixby High School. This year’s event hosted 28 prospect who participated in the showcase, and we'll begin highlighting the top performers among them. 

Earlier this week, we assembled leaderboards of the more traditional stat categories inside Statistical Leaderboards, which you can view here.

Today, we’ll be diving deeper into all of the data that we collected at the event with the help of our partners at TrackMan, using the valuable state-of-the-art technologies that they provide at Prep Baseball showcases.

Here’s a look at the players who recorded some of the most impressive metrics across these many categories.

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VALD ATHLETIC TESTING

TOP 60-YARD DASH

TOP 30-YARD SPLIT

TOP 10-YARD SPLIT

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TRACKMAN HITTING

MAX & AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

PEAK & AVERAGE BATTED DISTANCE

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

SWEET SPOT%

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BLAST MOTION

PEAK BAT SPEED & AVERAGE BAT SPEED

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

PEAK HAND SPEED & AVERAGE HAND SPEED

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

PEAK ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION & AVERAGE ROTATIONAL ACCELERATION

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

AVERAGE ON PLANE EFFICIENCY

2027's

2028's

2029's

2030's

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TRACKMAN PITCHING

FASTBALL

VELOCITY (MAX)

SPIN RATE (PEAK & AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (PEAK & AVG.)

Induced Vertical Break: Used in short form as "IVB," this metric is most important on fastballs for creating rise and on curveballs for creating depth – it can also have some use when measuring sliders and cutters as well. Sliders tend to be closer to zero inches while cutters are generally between 5 and 15 inches. Usually fastballs and curveballs with large IVB have higher spin efficiencies as well. Sliders generally have very little (closer to zero) IVB and very low spin efficiencies. You could also categorize IVB into spin rate as this is part of the “useful movement” you’re looking for. IVB is also a huge part of vertical approach angle.

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (PEAK & AVG.)

Horizontal Break: Outlined on TrackMan’s own website: “... horizontal movement is measured in inches between where the pitch actually crosses the front of home plate side-wise, and where it would have crossed home plate side-wise if had it traveled in a perfectly straight line from release. A positive number means the break was to the right from the pitcher’s perspective, while a negative number means the break was to the left from the pitcher’s perspective.”  

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

Average MLB pitchers throw 62% strikes, and better pitchers throw strikes 65% of the time, or roughly 2:1 strikes to balls.

SLIDER

SPIN RATE (PEAK & AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

CURVEBALL

SPIN RATE (PEAK & AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

CHANGEUP

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

   

FOR ALL OF THE STATISTICS FROM THIS EVENT, CLICK HERE.

  

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